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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. Couchbase vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BoltDB vs. Couchbase vs. SQL.JS

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn embedded key-value store for Go.A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databasePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store infooriginating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score17.30
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.couchbase.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.couchbase.comsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCouchbase, Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2014201320112012
Current releaseServer: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoC, C++, Go and ErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APICLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++no
Triggersyesnoyes infovia the TAP protocolno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoEphemeral bucketsyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.no

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